0 remaining after most of something has gone:
The scanner checks travel documents for residual traces of explosives.
I still felt some residual bitterness ten years after my divorce.
1 a payment made to an actor, singer, writer, etc. for repeated uses of their work:
2 resulting or left from something that was previously present:
3 remaining after most of something has gone:
4 used to describe an amount of money that is left after some other payments have been made:
Local villagers bring their evening meals to be cooked in the ovens' residual heat.
Plaque is a grubby coating of bacterial film that survives on the residual sugars left over in your mouth.
They clearly have some residual guilt about their treatment of their son.
Reagan won the right of actors to residuals when their films were shown on television.
Actors held out for residuals, repeat payments made every time a commercial is shown.
A cruel irony of bankruptcy law is that courts regard future residuals as assets.
In 1997, a rice crop was grown without any treatment application to test for residual effects.
Homozygous mutants with only 2 % residual enzyme activity were recovered in progeny of inter se matings of heterozygotes.
